The border cities of San Diego and Tijuana comprise the largest bi-national metropolitan region in the world. But while they have roughly equal populations, San Diego has sprawled approximately six times larger thanTijuana in the last decades.

The radical proximity of wealth and poverty in this border region provides an urgent backdrop against which new collaborative models of equitable economic growth and climate resilience can be developed and tested. The unplanned development on the Tijuana side, as well as the lack of means to control such irregular settlements, has made it more difficult for the government to provide needed infrstructture and services.

The project of a Network for Civic Nodes inTijuana Canyon suggests a possible transformation and revitazilaton of the river watershed through the creation of public spaces.

The complex social, economic, cultural and physical realities of many neighborhoods of contemporary cities demand new urban approaches that look beyond the urban context and integrate a holistic reading of the place, which analyze the behavior of individuals.

The response to this complexity comes from recognizing and addressing urban and social deficits, with the aim of providing the neighborhood and its inhabitants urban and civic spaces. The methodology is based on identifying existing social and spatial values in neighborhoods, in order to guide their regeneration using placemaking (socio- spatial working) as the central element of the process.

The sociospatial analysis identify the strategic value of existing spaces and cultural resources in order to strengthen local identity and community participation. 

Cascina Merlata school complex is a new concept of school, where traditional classrooms are integrated by different kind of gardens, designed ad hoc to support kids learning. Nature is deeply connected and integrated into the school life.This allows children to learn better in an happy and safe place doing different type of activities.

The concept of the school like an ‘Eden garden’ intends to give continuity to the educational space through the connection of internal and external spaces, in a process that mix traditional school learning and outside games. Three different grade of school - kindergarden, prymary and secondary - are divided, but still mantain a visual relation through transparent glass walls separa- ting the common spaces, that are located in the heart of the school complex. 

The project is located in PortaVenezia,close to the city center of Milan. A place rich of historical traditions and previous significant interventions. The intention is to create a complex system of all the different elements in the area.
Thanks to a contemporary architectural intervention, the aim is to valorize the entire area and create a new urban functional pole able to restore the monumentaly that PortaVenezia used to have in the past.

A thermal complex is a possible interpretation of the meaning of water presence in the old part of the city. The new Thermae, creating a system of public spaces supporting the main function wants to affirm the ancient roman relation between society and public spaces. 

The intervention area is located out of the Medina, in the new developed city of XX century. The project is the link between the new developed context, the Medina walls and the Medina dense urban fabric.The objective of the intervention is to convey the peatonal flows through the area. For this reason the main entrance is located on the axis that connects the Medina area to the new expansion area.The project is based on the study and the analysis of traditional urban spaces of the Medina: primary connection streets and different hierarchy of public spaces. Secondary public spaces at neighborhood level are characterized by elements that belong to each district of the Medina - fountain , oven , steam. Commercial and public Riads allow the connection between secondary roads. 

The riverside area of Lisbon is strongly marked by the break between the city and the river. Alfama riverfront is actually the only place where the city can ‘reach the river'.The aim of the intervention is to give this public place back to the city enviroment thanks to the re-invention and the revitalization of Alfama.

The intervention strategy is based on area recovery creating quality public spaces in order to attract local people.
Considering the local problems of the area, the goal is to elaborate an urban plan giving solutions that have corrispondence in the historical analysis of the area and can dialogue with the development of the urban fabric. 

The ‘Earth Child House’ is a site dedicated to house terminally-ill children and their families to enjoy a stay in close contact with nature. The aim is to give them moments of happiness in a harmonious place full of wonders.
The structure is built around the greenhouse, where children can re-discover the contact with the natural dimension from which the disease has taken them off.

Fundamental aspect that guided the design is the desire to maintain a continuity between the nature of the greenhouse and the surrounding landscape, expressed respecting the land and the existing buildings, in an effort to achieve a sustainable architecture, using local materials and studying the exposure and orientation of the structure. 

The project is developed to integrate the tower building into the entire system of the existing master plan.The public spaces on the ground floor are connected with ramps and half covered generating articulated spaces that create different architectural situations. The architectural shape of the tower was created to answer the needs of the functional program of an advertising agency.

The basement hosts public functions, such as shops, auditorium, exhibition spaces, museum and library.The tower is developed with a curtain-wall treatment of the façade aimed to characteri- ze the different main creative sectors of the advertising agency corrisponding to the inside double height spaces. 

The project is located in the Iguazu National Park in the province of Misiones. The climate that characterizes this region is hot and humid - subtropical - with no dry season.
 

According to climate analysis, the design guidelines try to ensure good sun protection and cross ventilation in summer, at the same time, enough isolation and appropriate solar gain in winter. Passive design strategies and guidelines are used to create open building sets to allow a good ventilation.

The local vegetation used is characterized by high stem that allows air circulation. The main goal is to improve the favorable aspects of climate characteristics and to protect from the unfavorable ones, rationally using natural sources and energy resources.